A successful historical fiction writer needs to have done painstaking research before submitting their book. Everything, even the smallest of details such as food, hygiene, customs, songs, jokes, language etc must be either known or surmised from the latest available knowledge of the period. The more modern the timeframe, the better documented the information but the more critical the audience.

Some popular and successful historical fiction writers include:

Centennial by James A Michener

London or Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Trinity or Exodus by Leon Uris

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

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